Kitagawa, Robson and Yaghi win Nobel Prize in chemistry

Nobel Prize awarded for chemistry on Wednesday,_11zon

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi have been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their pioneering work on the development of metal–organic frameworks.

Hans Ellegren, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announced the chemistry prize in Stockholm on Wednesday. It was the third Nobel Prize revealed this week.

The Nobel announcements will continue with the literature prize on Thursday, followed by the Peace Prize on Friday and the economics prize next Monday.

The award ceremony is scheduled for December 10, marking the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death in 1896. Nobel, a Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite, established the prestigious prizes.

Earlier this week, the 2025 Nobel season began with the medicine prize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. On Tuesday, the physics prize went to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for their groundbreaking research on quantum tunneling, which enhances digital communications and computing.

Since 1901, a total of 116 chemistry prizes have been awarded to 195 individuals. Last year’s chemistry prize went to David Baker, a biochemist at the University of Washington, and to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of Google DeepMind for developing powerful techniques to decode and design novel proteins using artificial intelligence — a breakthrough with the potential to revolutionize drug and materials development.